{"product_id":"9780573640049","title":"The Boys in the Band by Mart Crowley","description":"Drama Characters: 9 male Interior Set This seminal work of the Off-Broadway movement premiered in 1968 and was a long-running hit onstage, later filmed with the original cast. In 2010, the play made a triumphant return to New York City in an highly praised production produced by Drama Desk and Obie Award winning Transport Group. In his upper eastside Manhattan apartment, Michael is throwing a birthday party for Harold, a self-awoved \"32 year-old, pock-marked, Jew fairy\", complete with surprise gift: \"Cowboy\" a street hustler. As the evening wears on, fueled by drugs and alcohol, bitter, unresolved resentments among the guests come to light when a game of \"Truth\" goes terribly wrong. \"A play of real substance, one that deserves to be performed not occasionally but regularly.\"-The Wall Street Journal \"...terrifically thoughtful...The Boys in the Band  emerges remarkably universal.\"-NY1 \"...deliriously delicious...\"-Gay City News \"The Boys in the Band...goes from wittily bitchy to heartbreakingly brutal...\"-Out Magazine \"Witty, bitchy, revelatory and dazzlingly entertaining...the excoriating wit is still there.\"-New York Post \"Humor is still on key in this poignant, sparkling revival of a landmark gay play...the star of the evening is the play itself solidly built, still moving and enormously entertaining.\"-New York Daily News \"This is a play that takes the homosexual way of life totally for granted and uses this as a valid basis for human experience...the power of the play is the way in which it remorselessly peels away the pretensions of its characters.\"-The New York Times\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56292101259637,"sku":"9780573640049","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780573640049.jpg?v=1762745424","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9780573640049","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}